Stephen Mix Mitchell

Stephen Mix Mitchell (9 December 1743-30 September 1835) was a US Senator from Connecticut from 2 December 1793 to 4 March 1795, succeeding Roger Sherman and preceding Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.. He was a member of the Federalist Party.

Biography
Stephen Mix Mitchell was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1743, and he becmae a lawyer in Newton in 1770. From 1778 to 1784, he served in the State House of Representatives, and he served as a county judge before helping to ratify the US Constitution in Connecticut in 1788. When Roger Sherman died in 1793, Mitchell was appointed to finish his term in the US Senate, serving until 1795. From 1795 to 1814, he served on the Connecticut Supreme Court, serving as Chief Justice after 1807. He died in 1835.